A Report to Congress on the National Endowment for the Arts
Author: Independent Commission (U.S.)
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 142
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To Read Or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781422399965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExecutive Summary for a report which gathers & collates the best national data available to provide a reliable & comprehensive overview of American reading today. This report relies on large, nat. studies conducted on a regular basis by U.S. fed. agencies, supplemented by academic, foundation, & business surveys. Although there has been measurable progress in recent years in reading ability at the elementary school level, all progress appears to halt as children enter their teenage years. There is a general decline in reading among teenage & adult Americans. Both reading ability & the habit of regular reading have greatly declined among college grad. The declines have demonstrable social, economic, cultural, & civic implications. Charts & tables.
Toward Civilization
Author: National Endowment for the Arts
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFederalizing the Muse
Author: Donna M. Binkiewicz
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005-12-15
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0807863262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna Binkiewicz assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on the Arts, drawing a picture of the major players who created national arts policy. Using presidential papers, NEA and National Archives materials, and numerous interviews with policy makers, Binkiewicz refutes persisting beliefs in arts funding as part of a liberal agenda by arguing that the NEA's origins in the Cold War era colored arts policy with a distinctly moderate undertone. Binkiewicz's study of visual arts grants reveals that NEA officials promoted a modernist, abstract aesthetic specifically because they believed such a style would best showcase American achievement and freedom. This initially led them to neglect many contemporary art forms they feared could be perceived as politically problematic, such as pop, feminist, and ethnic arts. The agency was not able to balance its funding across a variety of art forms before facing serious budget cutbacks. Binkiewicz's analysis brings important historical perspective to the perennial debates about American art policy and sheds light on provocative political and cultural issues in postwar America.
Recurring Reports to the Congress
Author: United States. General Accounting Office. Office of Program Analysis
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 810
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Creative Legacy
Author: Nancy Princenthal
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Published: 2001-10
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBruce Nauman, Alice Neel, Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Dale Chihuly, Nam June Paik: these are just a few of the approximately 5,000 artists whose once-fledgling careers have been fostered by a Visual Artists' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sometimes controversial, always committed to the development of art in America, from 1966 to 1995 the NEA awarded many such artists' fellowships to recipients in a diverse range of disciplines. A Creative Legacy presents a compelling insider account of this innovative government program -- how its policies were determined, its panelists selected, and the artists evaluated. The 100 color and nearly 200 black-and-white illustrations showcase a significant sampling of work by both notable and less-recognized honorees; all recipients from 1965 to 1995 are listed in the extensive indices.
Expanding the Audience for the Performing Arts
Author: Alan R. Andreasen
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMet lit. opg. By trying to understand the process by which someone becomes a committed, involved arts attender the author gives recommendations for the future development of arts audiences. The paper describes consumers at various stages in this process, attempts to learn what seems most related to transitions between stages, and then makes recommendations for both managerial action and further research based on the model and the study's primary findings.
Recurring Reports to the Congress
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Total Pages: 538
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Author: Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 0795337604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller: A “lush, tipsy, all-night mambo of a novel about Cuban musicians in strange places like New York City” (People). Brothers Nestor and Cesar Camillo arrive from Cuba in 1949 with dreams of becoming famous mambo musicians. This memorable novel traces the arc of the two brothers’ lives—one charismatic and macho, the other soulful and sensitive—from Havana to New York, from East Coast clubs and dance halls to the heights of musical fame. The basis for a popular film, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love “tells of the triumphs and tragedies that befall two men blessed with gigantic appetites and profoundly melancholic hearts. . . . Hijuelos has depicted a world as enchanting as that in Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera” (Publishers Weekly). “Rich and provocative . . . a moving portrait of a man, his family, a community and a time.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
